Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-OR'DER-LY – DIS-PAND'
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DIS-OR'DER-LY, adv.
- Without order, rule, or method; irregularly; confusedly; in a disorderly manner. Savages fighting disorderly with stones. – Ralegh.
- In a manner violating law and good order; in a manner contrary to rules or established institutions. Withdraw from every brother that walketh disorderly. – 2 Thess. iii.
DIS-OR'DIN-ATE, a.
Disorderly; living irregularly. – Milton.
DIS-OR'DIN-ATE-LY, adv.
Inordinately; irregularly; viciously.
DIS-OR-GAN-I-ZA'TION, n. [See Disorganize.]
- The act of disorganizing; the act of destroying organic structure, or connected system; the act of destroying order.
- The state of being disorganized. We speak of the disorganization of the body, or of government, or of society, or of an army.
DIS-OR'GAN-IZE, v.t. [dis and organize. See Organ.]
To break or destroy organic structure or connected system; to dissolve regular system or union of parts; as, to disorganize a government or society; to disorganize an army. Every account of the settlement of Plymouth mentions the conduct of Lyford, who attempted to disorganize the church. – Eliot's Biog. Dict.
DIS-OR'GAN-IZ-ED, pp.
Reduced to disorder; being in a confused state.
DIS-OR'GAN-IZ-ER, n.
One who disorganizes; one who destroys or attempts to interrupt regular order or system; one who introduces disorder and confusion.
DIS-OR'GAN-IZ-ING, ppr.
- Destroying regular and connected system; throwing into confusion.
- adj. Disposed or tending to disorganize; as a disorganizing spirit.
DIS-OWN', v.t. [dis and own.]
- To deny; not to own; to refuse to acknowledge as belonging to one's self. A parent can hardly disown his child. An author will sometimes disown his writings.
- To deny; not to allow. To disown a brother's better claim. – Dryden.
DIS-OWN'ED, pp.
Not owned; not acknowledged as one's own; denied; disallowed.
DIS-OWN'ING, ppr.
Not owning; denying; disallowing.
DIS-OWN'MENT, n.
Act of disowning.
DIS-OX'YD-ATE, v.t. [dis and oxydate.]
To reduce from oxydation; to reduce from the state of an oxyd, by disengaging oxygen from a substance; as, to disoxydate iron or copper.
DIS-OX'YD-A-TED, pp.
Reduced from the state of an oxyd.
DIS-OX'YD-A-TING, ppr.
Reducing from the state of an oxyd.
DIS-OX'YD-A-TION, n.
The act or process of freeing from oxygen and reducing from the state of an oxyd. – Med. Repos. [This word seems to be preferable to deoxydate.]
DIS-OX'Y-GEN-ATE, v.t. [dis and oxygenate.]
To deprive of oxygen.
DIS-OX'Y-GEN-A-TED, pp.
Freed from oxygen.
DIS-OX'Y-GEN-A-TING, ppr.
Freeing from oxygen.
The act or process of separating oxygen from any substance containing it.
DIS-PACE', v.i. [dis and spatior, L.]
To range about. [Obs.] – Spenser.
DIS-PAIR', v.t. [dis and pair.]
To separate a pair or couple. – Beaum.
DIS-PAIR'ED, pp.
Parted; separated.
DIS-PAIR'ING, ppr.
Parting a couple or pair.
DIS-PAND', v.t. [L. dispando.]
To display. [Not in use.] – Dict.